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Overview
Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools!Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated. This book provides the latest research findings on various issues of violence in our schools. It also shows what happens when the adults responsible for the well-being of our children are actually perpetrating violence, staying silent about violence, or upholding a system that supports a violent atmosphere.
Kids and Violence is unique in its holistic and systemic approach of examining types of violence that are often overlooked or endorsed by school policies. The book includes 11 chapters focusing on issues such as bullying, school personnel’s role in violence, and prevention programs. The contributors are experts in their fields and include professors, deans, and directors of university social work schools.
Kids and Violence presents the results of an exploratory study that examines self-identified bullies and addresses issues of immediate and vital importance, including:
- bullying among students, grades 3-8, in a rural school district
- observations by school personnel on bullying among elementary and middle school students
- corporal punishment as a cultural norm in the United States and its impact on discipline in our schools
- solution-focused crisis intervention with adolescents
- bullying of children and other abuses of power by school personnel
- adolescent dating violence in the school setting
- and much more!
Synopsis
Working from the convictions that school violence is often covert, and that adults responsible for the safety of children may be perpetuating violence through their silence or support of an inherently violent system, contributors present the results of their recent studies, including analyses of bullies and victims by gender and grade, observations of school violence by school personnel, and a description of the role of parents. Studies also show how bullying relates to delinquency, how schools' physical environments may be a factor, and the role of dating-related violence. Contributors offer a solution-focused approach to crisis intervention and a survey of school-based violence prevention programs. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR